End
Cf
Salem (TP) A final hearing
in the drawn-out controversy
over Southern Pacific's sus
pension of passenger service
on its Eugene-Ashland run
was held here today.
Clifford Ferguson, chief of
the Public Utility Commis
sion's railroad division, said
it probably would be August
before he could finish" his
findings in the case and pre
sent them to PUC Commis
sioneV Howard Morgan for fi
nal decision.
Ferguson said the pressure
of national rate cases and
other matters requiring his at
LAST
SP
Federal Planning
Funds Sought for
County Program
A coordinated planning pro
gram has been established by
planning commissions in Jack
son county to receive full ben
efit of federal matching funds
provided under the program
The federal urban planning
project was discussed at
meeting of the county court,
representatives of incorporat
ed cities and the county plan
ning commission this week.
Under the program, the
county would pledge $7,100,
all of which could be contrib
uted in labor. Representatives
of Talent, Ashland and Cen
tral Point were informed that
their financial responsibility
in the program probably
would depend on the amount
' of mapping required for the
cities.
Starts Program
Medford already has start
ed its planning program. Plan
ning Technician Jack Eaton
said, and Ashland city offi
cials said the city could
pledge $1,500 in cash and an
other $1,500 in services. Oth
er cities have not made com
mitments as to the amount of
financial aid.
The county program would
include completion of base
maps in a six-mile radius
around cities, gathering land
use data in areas tending to
urban growth, complete land
use analysis of urban areas,
population studies including
school census data and age
characteristics, preparation of
tentative proposals for exten
sion of arterial street plans,
and a park and recreation
study in areas around Med
ford and Ashland.
The overall budget for the
program would be $27,300,
Eaton said. This includes $17,-
950 in salaries and wages,
$3,000 for services by munici
pal agencies, $5,600 in serv
ices by other public agencies,
$650 for travel and $100 for
reproduction and publica
tions. Kiwanis Officials
To Meet in Medford
Pacific Northwes't district
governor of Kiwanis Interna
tional and two division lieutenant-governors
are expected
here this Saturday and Sun
day for the spring conference
of 18 Kiwanis clubs.
The governor is Jack Mur
ton, Portland, and the lieu
tenant governors are Jack
Hudson, Coos Bay, division
15, and Ben Fanning, Bend,
division 15 A.
A dinner-dance will be held
at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Rogue
Valley Country club. Confer
ence workshop club officers
and directors is scheduled for
9 a.m. at the Jackson hotel
with a 1 p.m. luncheon to follow.
'Yes, This Is The Department Of Defense"
I I ft M
-fe-KKSl-0K
oreign
HEARER
tention would make it impos
sible to get out findings be
fore then.
Service on the Eugene-Ashland
run was abandoned al
most two years ago.
Suit was then filed by State
Sen. Philip Lowry, Medford,
and by two former state sena
tors, Gene Brown, ' Grants
Pass, and Paul Geddes, Rose
fcurg, demanding restoration
of service.
SP Counsel Oglesby Young
contended at the final hearing
that there was 'law allowing
the railroad to discontinue
passenger trains when they
were not paying. The SP
Under the program, the
county would cover fringe
area planning and cities
would have jurisdiction with
in the city limits. Fringe area
planning would include such
things as highway locations
and intersections.
Application for matching
federal funds for such a pro
gram must be filed with the
bureau of municipal research
at the University of Oregon
by May 15. Federal funds will
be available only for that part
of the program which in
cludes urban areas in and
near Medford and Ashland.
Other projects planned in the
county coordinated program
would be financed by the cit
ies involved and the county.
Eaton said the county plan
ning commission office would
need additional help starting
July 1 to help bring mapping
up to date since Medford al
ready has had aerial mapping
done.
Appointed Chairman
Gerald Latham, Medford,
was appointed chairman of a
recreation subcommittee. Oth
ers members are Ed Bolt and
Ed Strother. The subcommit
tee was instructed to visit
possible recreation sites in the
county and -report to the
commission. ,
Eaton said he has been
working with Medford, the
same commission, Charles
Hoover and sons, Eagle Point,
and the Izaak Walton league
for the possible development
of -Hoover lakes in Eagle
Point as a recreation area.
The lakes woulcl provide fish
ing and boating, and a golf
course was considered a pos
sibility near TouVelle State
park.
The commission also dis
cussed creating a trailer park
on 30 acres of land near
Hyatt lake. Recreation facili
ties planned at Howard Prai
rie lake also were discussed.
Latham said he understood
the bureau of land manage
ment would provide funds,
hut the county would be re
sponsible for establishing and
maintaining the park tnere.
The county planning com-
sion changed its meeting date
to the second Wednesday each
month. The next meeting will
be May 14.
Crosswalk Painting
Continues in City
City crews are painting the
yellow cross walk stripes in
the central business district
this week, according to Ver
non Thorpe, city, engineer.
The stripes, formerly paint
ed eight inches wide, are now
12 inches in width, he report
ed, to conform to the Oregon
manual on uniform traffic
control devices for streets
and highways.
Trade Would Cost Oregon AAany Jobs, Report Shows
abandoned service because it
was losing money and felt
there was no public demand
for service.
Young said he would file a
brief with the PUC concern
ing both U.S. and Oregon land
grant laws , of 1866 under
which predecessors of South
ern Pacific in Oregon and
California were granted land
for their tracks on the condi
tion that they provide ade
quate service.
The law was brought out
at a previous hearing by Low
ry who said it obligated the
SP - to provide service to
southern Oregon.
D'Autremont to
Appear in Federal
Court Tomorrow
Federal Indictment
Pending Since 1923
Hugh D'Autremont, 54
youngest of three brothers
serving life sentences for mur
der in one of Oregon's most
notorious crimes, will make
another bid for possible event
ual freedom in P o r 1 1 an d
Thursday morning.
D'Autremont, sentenced to
the state penitentiary for two
life terms plus 20 years for
the killing of train crew
members during the attempt
ed robbery of a Southern Pa
cific mail car near Ashland in
1923, will be arraigned on a
charge of assault with the in
tent to rob a mail train. The
action will take place in U.S.
District court in Portland be
fore Federal Judge Gus Solo
mon on the 1923 federal in
dictment.
With this arraignment, all
outstanding indictments
against D'Autremont will be
either dismissed or acted on
by the courts in which they
were made.
Appeared In County
In February D'Autremont
appeared in Jackson county
circuit court before Circuit
Court Judge H. K. Hanna and
pleaded guilty to one count of
second degree murder, and to
stopping a railroad train with
the intent of robbery. Three
pending first degree Murder
indictments against him were
dismissed by the court on the
recommendation of District
Attorney Thomas J. Reeder,
D Autremont win appear
Thursday pursuant to a writ
of "habeas corpus ad' prose
quendum," which was issued
out of Judge Solomon's court
Monday, April 28, at which
time George W. Friede, Port
land attorney for D'Autre
mont, and U.S. District Attor
ney C. W. Luckey, Portland,
appeared.
In criminal cases when a
single crime is committed
against both the state and fed
eral governments, it was ex
plained that both have juris
diction in the prosecution of
the crime. In the majority of
such cases the person is tried
by either the state or federal
government and immediately
following the first trial is
tried by the other. It was re
ported that .in cases where
there is a lapse of time be
tween the two trials and the
person is confined to prison
a "habeas corpus ad prose
quendum" must be requested.
Found in File -
According to information
received, the pending federal
indictment against D'Autre
mont was located in a secret,
sealed file in the Portland
U.S. district court. Judge
Solomon ordered the file
opened last month.
Records show that a motion
to dismiss the federal indict
ment against D'Autremont
was overruled by Judge Solo
mon in 1956. The request was
made at that time by Attorney
Philip J. Roth, Portland, then
candidate for congress.
Director H. M. Randall of
the state board of parole and
probation has said that dispo
sition of the pending indict
ments against D'Autremont
would have no effect on his
chances for parole and that
the case would be considered
on its merits.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 10 14 0
New York 17 0
Lary and Wilson; Ford,
Diimar (8), Grm (9) and
Berra.
Kansas Cily 11 11 o
Boston 4 8 3
Garver and House, Chili
(3); Brewerf Schroll (5).
Porterfield (6). Susce (9)
and white.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Milwaukee 2 5 1
Chicago 8 7 2
Buhl. Jay (5). Wiley (7).
Robinson (8) and Rice;
Brosnan and S. Taylor.
aseball
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Washington If Oregon
were cut off from trade with
foreign countries, hundreds of
workers in southwest Oregon
would lose their jobs and the
area's mills and farms would
lose millions of dollars in bus
iness, according to the De
partment of Commerce.
In a report prepared at the
request of Rep. Charles O.
Porter (D-Ore.) the Commerce
Department outlined in detail
the impact of world trade on
the economy of Porter's con
stituency, the 4th congression
53rd Year
Medford
28 Pages MEDFORD,
Local Ambulances
To Move Patients
To New Hospital
No Visiting Hours
Tomorrow Afternoon
Equipment and patients
from the old Rogue Valley
Memorial hospital on East
Main st. will be moved to the
new $2,800,000 building- on
Barnett rd. tomorrow.
Miss B. J. Larsen, hospital
administrators, said there
would be no visiting hours to
morrow afternoon, but there
will be regular visiting hours
at the new hospital tomorrow
night. She said it will take
several hours to make pa
tients comfortable in the new
building.
Miss Larsen also asked that
no freight or 'flowers be de
livered to either hospital to
morrow, but deliveries will
resume at the new building
Friday.
To Move Patients
Medford Ambulance service
will start moving patients to
the new nospital at about 11
a.m. tomorrow, and at least
three trucks will start moving
equipment into the new build
ing at 8 a.m. All patients will
be moved by ambulance, Miss
Larsen said.
Emergency patients will be
admitted to the new hospital,
at the corner of Barnett and
a.m. tomorrow, Miss Larsen
Murphy rds., starting at 11
pointed out.
She said there were 27 pa
tients in the old hospital this
morning.
Dedication ceremonies wsre
held at the new hospital last
Saturday, and about 6,000
residents were . conducted
through' the three-story' struc
ture Saturday and Sunday aft
ernoons. The new hospital is
said to be one of the finest
hospitals on the west coast
Hospital authorities said
several inquiries have been
made as ,to rates in the new
hospital. They pointed out
rates for private and semi-
private rooms will remain the
same.
Mrs.Slaten Pleads
Guilty to Charge
Mrs. Rosemary Slaten, 33,
of Gold Hill, pleaded guilty
before Circuit Judge Herbert
K. Hanna yesterday afternoon
to charges of embezzlement
and was sentenced to two
years in the' state peniten
tiary.
Mrs. Slaten had been sched
uled to enter he plea earlier
but originally due to sickness
and later on request of her
attorney, A. E. Piazza, to in
vestigate the case further, her
appearance was delayed.
Mrs. Slaten was originally
charged with embezzling $12,
000 from the Rogue Valley
Physicians service. She was
treated at Sacred Heart hos
pital after deputies found her
collapsed on the floor of the
living room of her Gold Hill
home April 2.
Mrs. Slaten's employment
with the Rogue Valley Physi
cians' service terminated
March 4. An audit of the
books revealed a shortage,
sheriff's officers said. She had
worked for the firm about
three years.
Court Requested to
Open Road to Lake
The Jackson count;.' road
department has been request
ed to have the Lake of the
Woods road open by May 15,
County Judge Rodney Keat
ing said today.
Keating said he has contact
ed the Klamath county engi
neer's office and learned that
they hope to have the Klam
ath county roads open to the
lake prior to May 15.
Ike Penonainceg Hissia's $imi
; i -
al district. The district goes
as far north as Linn county
and includes all counties west
of the Cascades southward to
the state line. The Commerce
report declared:
"The evidence shows that
foreign trade contributes very
greatly to the welfare of the
people of Oregon. They pros
per as trade expands and are
hurt as trade contracts."
Commerce officials are pre
paring such reports for mem
bers of Congress who want
supporting evidence for the
upcoming debate over legis
OREGON, WEDNESDAY,
ore
oted-
Unanimous Vote
Authorizes
Work Speed-Up
Washington (IB The Sen
ate Interior Committee has
voted unanimously to ap
prove 'a resolution authoriz
ing an accelerated reclama
tion program for the coming
fiscal year including in
creases for two Oregon proj
ects, Sen. Richard L. Neu
berger (D-Ore.) said today.
The Oregon projects are
the Talent division of the
Rogue River project and the
Crooked river project.
Additional $2,500,000
The increases would ' pro
vide an -additional $2,500,000
for -the Talent division, rais
ing the total available for it
to $T2 ' rrriHiorn" They -would
provide another $1 million
for the Crooked River proj
ect, raising the total of it
to $1,800,000, Neuberger
said. .
Neuberger testified at a re
cent hearing on behalf of
these additions over the presi
dent's budget to advance proj
ect completion and provide
more employment.
The Committee also pro
vided $5 million more for
general investigation s of po
tential irrigation projects
which Oregon would share
with other Western states,
Neuberger said.
The Oregon senator said he
would urge the House and
Senate Appropriations Com
mittee to approve the in
creases.
Charges Against
Youth Are Dropped
Charges against Charles
Darrow DeLorme, 19, of 1800
Stratford ave., Medford, have
been dropped by the district
attorney's office.
He was charged with falsi
fying his age to obtain liquor.
DeLorme was scheduled to
appear today in district court
on the charges.
A spokesman for the dis
trict attorney's office said De
Lorme had been subpoenaed
to appear before the board of
state " liquor control so was
immune from prosecution for
any matter concerning that
transaction. DeLorme had ap
peared before the board when
it held hearings here recently
on possible liquor law viola
tions by taverns and bars of
the Jackson county area in
selling liquor to minors.
FUMIGATING ALARM
Firemen were dispatched
about 7:45 p.m. yesterday
when smoke was reported
coming from Rogue Valley
greenhouse, 625 Franquette
st. The owners were fumigat
ing the interior of the green
house and there was no fire,
firemen said. :
Washington OP) President
Eisenhower played golf at the
Burning Tree club today.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Fair and mild
through Thursday. Low tonight
40 High Thursday 78.
, Temp.
Highest yesterday .: . 77
Lowest this Morning 39
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise . 5:09 a.m.
Sunset 7:10 p.m.
Moonset Thursday 3:54 a.m.
Full Moon Saturday
PROMINENT STAR
Sirius, sets 8:45 p.m.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Jupiter, due south ....11:12 p.m.
Saturn, low in south
east 12:02 a-m.
Mars, rises 3:08 a.m.-
Venus, rises 3:05 a.m.
V-" -" '
lation to extend the reciprocal
trade act. Hearings on the bill
have been completed by the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee, which is now meeting
behind closed doors to draft
the bill and determine what,
if any, restrictive amend
ments might be tacked on be
fore it goes to the House floor.
The Commerce Department
calculated the 4th district's
share in the export market at
over $22 million out of a state
total of $114 million. Lumber
and wood products was the
leading commodity for xhe
Price 10 Cents
Tribune
APRIL 30, 1958 No. 34
fa
by
"AUTO BUY" KICKOFF John I. Sell (at
rostrum) of the First National Bank of
Portland, was the kickoff speaker last night
for the Medford Automobile Dealers "You
Auto Buy Now" program, featuring the
slogan, "Keep Medford's Economy Rolling."
More than 130 civic and business leaders,
and auto dealers and salesmen, attended.
At the head table were, left to right, Paul
Bids Are Called
For Crater Lake
Park Paying Work
Bids will be opened at 3
p.m. May 22 in Crater Lake
National park headquarters in
Medford for grading and pav
ing the utility area at park
headquarters, and reconstruct
ing and paving the road in
tersection at Annie Spring,
Park Superintendent Tom
Williams has announced.
The two jobs will be in one
contract, he said, and will in
clude about 4,700 cubic yards
of excavation, drainage instal
lation, hauling and placing
5,400 cubic yards of crushed
rock from existing stockpiles,
furnishing 50 tons of asphalt,
mixing, laying and rolling
surface material, and con
struction of 1,100 feet of curb
ing.
Plans and specifications are
available at the park, and in
the Medford office in the post
office building.
Area Cleared
Williams said that although
there is more than 13 feet of
snow at park headquarters,
the two job locations have
been plowed clear and inter
ested contractors may exam
ine the sites at their conven
ience.
The project is the first of
several contracts which will
be advertised this spring as
part of the planned improve
ments under the park ser
vice's Mission 66 program,
Williams said.
Later, bids will be called
for residence construction, a
covered entrance to the ad
ministration building, two
comfort stations and an en
trance station.
Mission 66 is a 10-year de
velopment program designed
to restore deteriorated park
facilities and to expand and
improve services and facilit
ies to meet the increasing de
mand, Williams pointed out.
4th district, with exports val
ued at nearly $8 million. The
leading single commodity for
the state as a whole is wheat,
valued at S28.4 million. Lum
ber exports for the state as
a whole run around $15.5 mil
lion, Commerce said.
For the 4th district, the re
port said food and kindred
products were exported worth
$989,000; pulp and paper pro
ducts, $438,000; pears, $512,
000; dairy products, $764,000;
livestock; $635,000; vege
tables, $552,000; and wheat,
$484,000. ,
. Jobwise, the report said the
lumber exports represented
750 man-years of work, the
food exports 50 man- years
and the pulp and paper ex
ports, 38 man-years. It didn't
estimate the number of agri
cultural jobs affected by trade
but it noted that 24,000 per-
ct
130 Attend Dinner
To Start Auto Buy
ow Program Here
More than 130 business and
civic leaders, automobile deal
ers and salesmen, met for din
ner last night to kick off the
10-day "You Auto Buy Now"
program sponsored by the
Medford Automobile Dealers
association.
Speaker at the meeting,
held at the Rogue Valley
Country club, was John I. Sell,
Portland, assistant vice presi
dent of the First National
bank, who talked on Oregon's
economy, and described en
couraging trends noted in va
rious .parts of the state.
"It's all over," Sell said, re
ferring to the economic re
cession which has hit the
state, largely through the
slump in the lumber market
and the slow-down in automo-.
bile sales.
Pitching his talk in an opti
mistic vein, Sell repeated over
and over that Oregon's econ
omy is basically sound, that
the future is bright, that sav
ings are high, and that what
is needed now is active, down-to-earth
salesmanship to cre
ate a climate of confidence in
which consumers will buy
what they need.
Citing facts and figures to
back up his theme, Sell de
clared that the recession, now
nation-wide, hit Oregon first,
because of a slowdown in
housing, and that Oregon is
coming out of it first. But this
will not happen as rapidly as
it could if potential consumers
are not "sold" on Oregon's
future, Sell said.
Sell reviewed various por
tions of the state through
which he has travelled recent
ly, and said that only in
Grants Pass, Roseburg and Eu
gene is the "bloom off the
rose." But in these areas, he
said, wise retrenchment pro
grams by merchants have pre
vented too much economic dis
tress
He urged the dealers and
sons in the 4th district work
on farms. Supporting services
for farms create employment
for thousands more, the re
port said.
Congressmen as a rule only
hear about companies who
are hard hit by import comp
etition. The Commerce report
shows that many plants in the
4th district are helped by
trade. Among them the report
notes Weyehaeuser Timber
Co., which benefits from ex
ports of wooden containers;
Stokely-Van Camp, Inc. which
exports canned fruits and
vegetables.
The government report
puts the trade proposition
like this:
"Without our nation's ex
ports our sales to foreign
ers we would have to shut
down many of our plants. In
1956, the amount of sales
Funds
mmittee
Lea, president of the dealers association,
Russ Jamison, who is coordinating the proj
ect for the dealers, Sell, Mayor John Snider,
Otto Frohnmayer, president of the Jackson
County Chamber of Commerce and Gene
Malecki, Portland, Heart association repre
sentative who entertained with impersona
tions during the evening.
(Kenn Knackstedt photo)
other businessmen attending
to take the "long view," that
there will be dips in the econ
omy, but that the trend is
steadily up; that there is rea
son for confidence in the fu
ture xf Oregon, and that the
answer to present difficulties
is to "Get out and sell."
Jerry Poulus was master of
ceremonies, and introduced a
number of guests, including
Mayor John Snider, who
promised the cooperation of
the city in the "You Auto
Buy" program starting tomor
row. Otto Frohnmayer, president
of the Jackson County Cham
ber of Commerce, pledged that
organization's cooperation.
Entertainment was furnish
ed by. high school musicians,
dancers from the Colleen
Hope studio, and a group of
St. Mary's school boys, who
put on a "fashion show" of
sack (burlap) dresses.
Operating Budget for
Howard School Passes
The operating budget for
Howard school district passed
Monday by a margin of 96 to
30, according to Mrs. Margaret
Cox, school board clerk.
The $150,018.40 budget for
the school year starting July
1, 1958, received the largest
vote in the history of the
school district, Mrs. Cox said.
The new budget compares
with $138,317.93 for the cur
rent school year, an increase
of $11,700.47.
Main reason for the budget
increase was the raise in teach-
s' salaries. Raises for 17
teachers and superintendent
ranged from $300 to $500 a
year, the clerk explained.
She said this is the first year
that the school board has had
to raise salaries on a local
abroad was $19 billion one
dollar's worth sent abroad for
every $10 worth of movable
goods produced and sold in
the United States.
"Without our nation'! im
ports we would have a sub
stantially lower standard of
living. In 1956 we bought $13
billion worth of goods from
foreign countries for use in
our production processes or
for consumption to meet the
needs of the American peo
ple. Most of these jmports
met demands which could not
be supplied from United
States sources, or only to a
limited extent at increased
prices. .
"Too, without imports
our purchase of, goods from
abroad foreign buyers
would not have sufficient dol
lars to purchase our exported
products in return."
Attitude Toward
Arctic Inspection
'Almost Silly'
Acceptance
Appeal Renewed
Washington OP) Presi
dent Eisenhower today called
Russia's denunciation of the
U.S. Arctic war-prevention
plan almost silly. He appeal
ed again to Russia to accept
it.
The President said the plan
was put forward seriously
and honestly in the UN Secur
ity Council to allay Russian
fears about U.S. H-bomber
alert flights over the Arctic.
He said the U. S. hoped
Russia would accept the pro
posal as sensible and there
fore perhaps a first step to
ward broader disarmament
agreements.
The President said his re
action to Soviet Foreign Min
ister Andre Gromyko's at
tack on the U. S. proposal
was one of sadness.
On other foreign policy
points Eisenhower told his
news conference: ,
... Forty per cent of forth
coming U.S. nuclear tests in
the Central Pacific will be al
most exclusively devoted to
trying to develop radio-activity-free,
clean weapons.
. He said he knew of no mili
tary officer who has ever of
ficially suggested stockpiling
dirtier nuclear weapons. Sen.
Clinton Anderson (D-N.M.),
said Tuesday that the new
test series will try out radio
logical weapons.
Russia Threatens Veto
There has been no
change in the U.S. disarma
ment policy since it was laid
out with NATO approval at
the London Disarmament con
ference last August.
The P r e s i d e n t's com
ment on the current UN de
bate came as Russia raised
threats of a veto of the" U.S.
Arctic inspection plan and
warned that it may send its
bombers across the Arctic on
flights similar to those made
by the U. S. Strategic Air
Command.
Gromyko called the propos
al for Arctic aerial inspection
"sheer publicity" and said it
was designed to collect intel
ligence from the Soviet
Union.
Eisenhower comment
ed that his reaction to the
Russian foreign minister this
time was not one of irrita
taton or resentment. Rather,
he said, it was one of sadness.
Serious Proposal
The President said the U.S.
had put forward the proposal
honestly and seriously.. He
said it came about as a result
of the Soviet charge that the
U.S. was running grave risks
with world peace by conduct
ing H-bomber alert practices.
To allay this fear, the Pres
ident said, the U.S. put for
ward its proposal for an Arc
tic aerial inspection plan.
(See Story on Page 6)
basis. The district's budget has
come under the rural school
board before. However, a law
passed by the current legisla
ture released the second and
third class school districts
from the rural board budget
ary control, she explained.
Most of the other items in
the new school year budget
are pretty much the same, she
said.
Operating budget for the
new school year provides for
32 mills in taxes plus the carry-over
of 5.1 mills in bonded
indebtedness. The district will
also have a non-high and ru
ral levy pending on the out
come of the May 5 election.
The total levy could run to an
estimated 68 to 73 mills, she
added.